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Motivated by the very low diffusivity recently found in ab initio simulations of liquid water, we have studied its dependence with temperature, system size, and duration of the simulations. We use ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fernandez-Serra , Emilio Artacho

Liquid water is fundamentally important, and its accurate computer simulation has been the driving force for myriad methodological developments. Ab initio molecular dynamics with forces obtained from density functional theory (DFT) is now a…

In this work, we report the results of a series of density functional theory (DFT) based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of ambient liquid water using a hierarchy of exchange-correlation (XC) functionals to investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 Robert A. DiStasio , Biswajit Santra , Zhaofeng Li , Xifan Wu , Roberto Car

The ability of several density-functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation functionals to describe hydrogen bonds in small water clusters (dimer to pentamer) in their global minimum energy structures is evaluated with reference to second…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-20 Biswajit Santra , Angelos Michaelides , Matthias Scheffler

The structural properties of liquid GeSe$_2$ are studied by using first-principles molecular dynamics in conjuncton with the Becke, Lee, Yang and Parr (BLYP) generalized gradient approximation for the exchange and correlation energy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Micoulaut , R. Vuilleumier , C. Massobrio

We regularize the potential distribution framework to calculate the excess free energy of liquid water simulated with the BLYP-D density functional. The calculated free energy is in fair agreement with experiments but the excess internal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Valéry Weber , D. Asthagiri

Aided by a neural network representation of the density functional theory (DFT) potential energy landscape of water in the RPBE approximation corrected for dispersion, we calculate several structural and thermodynamic properties of its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-26 Oliver Wohlfahrt , Christoph Dellago , Marcello Sega

It is known that ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of liquid water, based on the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to density functional theory (DFT), yield structural and diffusive properties in reasonable agreement…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Jue Wang , G. Roman-Perez , Jose M. Soler , Emilio Artacho , M. -V. Fernandez-Serra

Liquid water exhibits several important anomalous properties in the vicinity of the melting temperature ($T_{\mathrm{m}}$) of ice Ih, including a higher density than ice and a density maximum at 4~$^{\circ}$C. Experimentally, an isotope…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yifan Li , Bingjia Yang , Chunyi Zhang , Axel Gomez , Pinchen Xie , Yixiao Chen , Pablo M. Piaggi , Roberto Car

We report on an extensive study of the viscosity of liquid water at near-ambient conditions, performed within the Green-Kubo theory of linear response and equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), based on density-functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-05 Cesare Malosso , Linfeng Zhang , Roberto Car , Stefano Baroni , Davide Tisi

First principles molecular dynamics simulation protocol is established using revised functional of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (revPBE) in conjunction with Grimme's third generation of dispersion (D3) correction to describe properties of water…

To understand the performance of popular density-functional theory (DFT) exchange-correlation (xc) functionals in simulations of liquid water, water monomers and dimers were extracted from a PBE simulation of liquid water and examined with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-21 Biswajit Santra , Angelos Michaelides , Matthias Scheffler

We analyze and compare the structural, dynamical, and electronic properties of liquid water next to prototypical metals including Pt, graphite, and graphene. Our results are built on Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) generated…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-09 Kevin Ryczko , Isaac Tamblyn

The collective dynamics in liquid water is an active research topic experimentally, theoretically and via simulations. Here, ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are reported in heavy and ordinary water at temperature 323.15 K, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-24 T. Bryk , A. P. Seitsonen

Water is perhaps the most simulated liquid. Recently three water models have been developed following the adaptive force matching (AFM) method that provides excellent predictions of water properties with only electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Hongyi Hu , Zhonghua Ma , Feng Wang

We simulate TIP4P/2005 water in the temperature range of 257 K to 318 K with time-steps $\delta =$ 0.25, 0.50, 2.00, and 4.00 fs. The density-temperature behavior obtained using 0.25 or 0.50 fs are in excellent agreement with each other but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Dilipkumar N. Asthagiri , Thiago Pinheiro dos Santos , Thomas L. Beck

In this work we present the dielectric behavior of water with a novel flexible model that improved all three sites water models Different concentrations of the ionic liquid 1- butyl-3-methylimidazolium [bmim]…

The static and dynamical properties of heavy water have been studied at ambient conditions with extensive Car-Parrinello molecular-dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble, with temperatures ranging between 325 K and 400 K.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H-L. Sit , Nicola Marzari

Predicting the asymmetric structure and dynamics of solvated hydroxide and hydronium in water has been a challenging task from ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). The difficulty mainly comes from a lack of accurate and efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Renxi Liu , Chunyi Zhang , Xinyuan Liang , Jianchuan Liu , Xifan Wu , Mohan Chen

Accounting for dispersion interactions is essential in approximate density functional theory (DFT). Often, a correction potential based on the London formula is added, which is damped at short distances to avoid divergence and double…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 K. Nikolas Lausch , Redouan El Haouari , Daniel Trzewik , Jörg Behler
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